Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol's nicely hand-drawn and colored French cartoon was a 2012 Academy Award nomination for best animated film. It tells of a clever Parisian cat, Dino, with not nine lives but two, as the house pet of a girl named Zoe and, in the night, as the crime companion of a sleek jewelry burglar who climbs up buildings and into apartment windows. A Cat in Paris falters in the middle with too much farcical plot involving a clumsy, murderous gang, but it finds itself with a neat climax amidst the gargoyles atop the Notre Dame cathedral. Dubbed smoothly into English by Marcia Gay Harden, Anjelica Huston, and other notables.

Review: Act of Valor New York congressman John King is investigating alleged collusion between the CIA and those involved in Kathryn Bigelow's film about the Navy SEALs' killing of Bin Laden, pressuring the studio into holding up the release until after the Presidential election to avoid charges of partisanship.

Review: Chico & Rita This is the first animated movie nominated in that category to show pubic hair, and as a film for grown-ups it outclasses most of the nominees for Best Picture.

Review: Kill List Following up his impressive debut, Down Terrace , Ben Wheatley's Yorkshire-based crime thriller swerves with abrupt satisfaction into horror in its final moments.

Review: Tyler Perry's Good Deeds Tyler Perry is no Douglas Sirk. In his latest melodrama, his uptight exec, San Francisco software company CEO Wesley Deeds, is no Madea, either. Hell, Deeds doesn't even know who he is himself.

Review: Wanderlust Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston star as an unemployed New York couple who, while on the road, chance upon a commune and decide to try the make-love-not-money lifestyle.

Review: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax Regrettably, this team loses a lot of Seuss's quirkiness, though not the message about corporate greed and slash-and-burn imperialism.

Review: Project X When you start making negative comparisons to films like Porky's , you know a film has problems.

Review: In Darkness Polish director Agnieszka Holland's Oscar-nominated story about a wastrel named Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), who hid the Jews of Lvov from the Nazis by concealing them in the sewers, has an anguished and feral intensity.

Review: The Forgiveness of Blood American filmmaker Joshua Marston ( Maria Full of Grace ) traveled to Albania to write and direct this thoughtful, subtle feature about the victims of a blood feud, with an all-Albanian ensemble.

Review: The Turin Horse Legend has it that in Turin, Friedrich Nietzsche came across a horse being beaten by its driver. Nietzsche embraced the horse, went insane, and remained so for the rest of his life.

REVIEW: LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE | March 12, 2013 A decent little movie, but hardly a major one, from Iran's master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who, self-exiled, here shoots in Tokyo with an all-Japanese cast.

REVIEW: THE GATEKEEPERS | February 26, 2013 Great cinema journalism, The Gatekeepers was the National Society of Film Critics' winner for Best Documentary of 2012.

REVIEW: THE LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953) | February 27, 2013 It's the 60th anniversary of this pioneering American independent feature, which greatly influenced both cinema vérité documentarians and the French New Wave.

REVIEW: HOW TO RE-ESTABLISH A VODKA EMPIRE | February 20, 2013 Daniel Edelstyn launched this film project after reading the spirited diary of his late grandmother, Maroussia Zorokovich, whose wealthy Jewish family split from Ukraine as the Bolsheviks were taking control.

REVIEW: HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA | February 12, 2013 What Robert Flaherty did with title cards in his silent Nanook of the North , Werner Herzog manages with declamatory voiceover in Happy People : romanticization of the austere, self-reliant lives of hunters and trappers in the icebound north.